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- Comment on [Episode] Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express • Ginga Tokkyuu Milky☆Subway - Episode 11 discussion 5 hours ago:
As always, the writing was very charming here.
- Comment on Wrong Groomers 2 days ago:
isekai is so popular for the same reason: it enables easy, lazy writing that handwaves actual motivations while allowing anyone to self insert more easily
It’s not just because of all that. It also allows most isekai writers to skip 95% of the worldbuilding process! No wonder these things all feel the same.
- Comment on Wrong Groomers 2 days ago:
In the Cardcaptor Sakura manga (also CLAMP), an elementary school teacher gives an engagement ring to one of his students. Also, Sakura’s dad was Sakura’s mom’s high school teacher when they met.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 37] 2 days ago:
I’d recommend it. If you read the first handful of chapters and think that you’ve got a general idea of what the series has to offer, I assure you that’s just the setup for an amazingly fun story.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 37] 3 days ago:
Have you watched or read Kaguya-sama: Love is War? It’s from the same mangaka so the same caveats apply, except that because there’s less of the serious stuff and more of the really good character stuff and silly stuff his strong points can shine more and his weaknesses are emphasized less. Overall I liked it even more than Oshi no Ko.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 37] 3 days ago:
Lol, you really did pick the worst point to drop it. IMO the show gets exciting at the end of episode 12.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 37] 3 days ago:
Just finished watching Princess Jellyfish last week. It was super fun; I’ll definitely have to give the manga a look since it’s clear from the episode count and volume count that the anime doesn’t cover anywhere near the full contents of the manga. I love the way Mayaya moves/is!
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 37] 3 days ago:
but if you pull all the way back from the details and just look at the basic premise, I don’t think it holds up all that well
I think this is symptomatic of the mangaka’s strengths and weaknesses. IMO Aka is really good at writing fun characters and putting them in interesting and funny situations. Also IMO he’s kind of bad at writing serious plot stuff. I didn’t like the plot of Oshi no Ko, but overall I enjoyed reading it anyways.
- Comment on Wrong Groomers 3 days ago:
In defense of the Persona one: I think the main character of Persona 5 is supposed to be a self-insert, and as an adult playing those games it’s kind of nice to have a romance option who isn’t a teenager.
- Comment on [DISC] JJK Modulo: Ch 1 3 days ago:
I think if I didn’t have a giant “to-read” pile already it might. As it is, I think I’ll just keep reading what I’m already reading and then read this when it’s finished if reviews are good.
- Comment on [DISC] JJK Modulo: Ch 1 3 days ago:
After how some of the characters were handled in the original JJK I’m not sure I’m willing to give Gege more of my time tbh.
- Comment on Anime with a high death count that's actually good? 5 days ago:
Really? It was a very popular show.
- Comment on Anime with a high death count that's actually good? 6 days ago:
Here are my favorites, in roughly descending order of preference:
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988 OVA version) - A space opera following two admirals on opposite sides of a galaxy-scale conflict. There’s a remake with more modern animation, but it has inferior music and character design so I prefer the 1988 version.
- Takopi’s Original Sin - A pretty fucked-up story about some very sad kids and an alien who’s trying to help them
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans - Some street kids try to make it big as mercenaries
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners - A young man gets involved with a small gang of cyberpunk mercenaries
- Comment on [Episode] Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express • Ginga Tokkyuu Milky☆Subway - Episode 10 discussion 1 week ago:
That joke at the very beginning got me good!
- Comment on "One Punch Man" Season 3 New Key Visual, PV 1 week ago:
That’s true, but admittedly the pacing of the OPM manga itself is pretty slow in this arc.
- Comment on "One Punch Man" Season 3 New Key Visual, PV 1 week ago:
TBH the webcomic is better anyways. Much higher joke-to-page ratio.
- Comment on "One Punch Man" Season 3 New Key Visual, PV 1 week ago:
Gonna be honest, I didn’t even finish Season 2 and nothing that’s been shown of Season 3 is catching my interest. The manga’s art is so good, why bother with a sub-par anime adaptation?
- Comment on [Discussion] Frieren: Beyond Journey's End - Ch. 144 1 week ago:
It’s also possible that even though Serie herself can’t find a path to victory Serie’s pupils will surprise her. It wouldn’t be the first time it’s happened.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 36] 1 week ago:
Yes. I’ve greatly enjoyed the show so far. It’s genuinely been amazing. But there’s an upcoming arc that I expect will be knocking everyone’s pants off once Science Saru gets their hands on it. Heck, two of my favorite characters haven’t even been introduced yet!
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 36] 1 week ago:
These days, even if you run across another anime fan irl, with 50+ shows coming out every season and broadly available, it is not too likely you are even watching any of the same shows
PC Gaming has the same issue. Just 15 years ago if you were a PC gamer you were probably aware of 90%+ of the games on PC that were worth playing, and you’d probably played a significant percentage of them. If you had a friend who was also a PC gamer the odds were extremely high that you played some of the same games. These days it feels like you really have to go out of your way to make the same thing happen.
- Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #8 - Summer 2025 (Anime Corner) 1 week ago:
it might just be that it legitimately just isn’t that good
That would be incredibly incorrect.
- Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #8 - Summer 2025 (Anime Corner) 1 week ago:
Do you think it’s just suffering from being on Amazon Prime video with ads?
- Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #8 - Summer 2025 (Anime Corner) 1 week ago:
First off, it’s already notable for being one of the only horror anime that doesn’t suck. Second, what if a creepy mountain monster took over your hot best friend’s body but hey he’s still kinda there and still kinda the same person and you can totally fix him?
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 36] 1 week ago:
I have heard the mangas storylines drop off a bit
I have no idea where you might have heard that. If it’s any comfort, I disagree. In fact, my favorite arc still hasn’t been animated yet.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 36] 1 week ago:
Have you had a chance to look at the Magic Knight Rayearth manga? The art is incredible.
- Comment on [Episode] CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 9 discussion 1 week ago:
Definitely one of my favorite episodes so far; it was as charming as it was fun.
- Comment on [Episode] CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 8 discussion 2 weeks ago:
Really neat that he sang the whole narration bit for the play.
- Comment on [Episode] CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 8 discussion 2 weeks ago:
And the text on the police officer’s hat is definitely a reference the the dudes in green jackets from Nichijou, right?
Definitely.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ) 2 weeks ago:
This might have been photoshopped, but it’s shocking just how many people will get kanji tattooed onto them without confirming the design with a native speaker first.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 35] 2 weeks ago:
Of the ones I’ve been watching this season, City the Animation and The Summer Hikaru Died are easily the standouts. A+ shows for sure. Clevatess has been good, Witch Watch has been decent as well, and Turkey has been “fine”. If I were to assign them letter grades I’d probably give Clevatess an A-, Witch Watch a B-, and Turkey a C. It’s juuuust good enough for me to not drop it, but I don’t really recommend it either.